Analyzing Christianity
George Barna frets anew over ‘extinction’ of ‘biblical worldview’
When you hear any evangelical use the term biblical, you’re hearing an attempt to grab authority.
Analyzing Christianity
Weird Christianity strikes again as a promised cure for the decline
Years ago, I noticed that quite a few younger evangelicals strive mightily to practice what I’ve come to call Weird Christianity. It’s equal parts oneupsmanship, Original Christianity, and yearning for something genuine and real in their religion full of false claims. So Weird Christianity scratches all kinds of itches in Read more
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Ray Comfort and the Doctrinal Yardstick
A ringside seat to a bunch of Doctrinal Yardstick arguments about Ray Comfort.
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Ray Comfort explains how to get prayers answered—er, heard by Jesus
The evangelical money train still has a few stops to make and a few sheep yet to fleece, and nowhere can we see that fact illustrated by the fact that Ray Comfort still has a career.
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The STILL-untold story of the Jesus Revolution
It’s not PROOF YES PROOF of the divine or supernatural, no, but the Jesus Revolution is still a fascinating evangelical movement.
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Why evangelicals love prophecies so much
Prophecy fulfills a very important role in evangelical culture, one that they can’t bear to lose even if it means countless failures and humiliations. They’d rather keep prophesying than stop and miss out on those many benefits.
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Christianese 101: ‘Kingdom work’
It’s a pity that Lifeway’s Bible studies are so short and perfunctory; I’d love to see them even attempt to explain their whackadoodle reasoning process for any of them, but especially this one.
SBC Watching
How Southern Baptist pastor Heath Lambert is leaving nothing to chance
If I’m right, then it doesn’t matter at all how many people Heath Lambert loses over his demand.
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Confirmation bias: Catholic early marriage edition
Confirmation bias is a helluva drug.
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Dumb apologetics arguments for the ‘soul’
Usually, when we talk about apologetics we’re talking about Christians’ attempts to make the existence of their god seem less ludicrous. But today, we have a rare treat: an evangelical named Thaddeus Williams is going to try to make the existence of a soul sound less ludicrous. And he does Read more